Elon Musk

The "PayPal Mafia" is a group of former PayPal employees and founders who have since founded and developed additional technology companies such as Tesla, Inc., LinkedIn, Palantir Technologies, SpaceX, Square, Slide, Kiva, YouTube, Yelp, and Yammer. Most of the members attended Stanford University or University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign at some point in their studies.

Elon Musk ha rivelato un piano per alleviare la congestione della città che vedrebbe una rete sotterranea di tunnel che trasportano auto su pattini ad alta velocità che viaggiano a 130 miglia orarie.

L'imprenditore e fondatore di Tesla ha presentato la sua visione per The Boring Company insieme a un video durante un TED Talk la scorsa settimana a Vancouver. Ha fondato l'azienda alla fine del 2016 dopo essere diventato frustrato dalla rete di trasporti di Los Angeles.

Benefits of tunneling include:

1. Unlimited capacity: There is no practical limit to how many layers of tunnels can be built, so any current or future capacity outcome can be achieved. This flexibility contrasts with a surface system, where adding a lane to the road is often difficult.

2. Minimal land use: Tunnels minimize the use of valuable surface land. Tunnels also do not conflict with currently operating transportation systems, such as roads and sidewalks.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. docked a supply ship at the International Space Station in a breakthrough for commercial space travel.

Closely held SpaceX, controlled by billionaire Elon Musk, connected its unmanned Dragon capsule to the station at 12:02 p.m. New York time, according to Kyle Herring, a spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It is the first company to accomplish the feat.

This mini documentary takes a look at how Elon Musk sees the world through a scientific and engineering mind - and how this fuels the businesses he has started. We will also take a look at how he taught himself about different industries: from banking (Paypal), to rocket engineering (SpaceX). 

Sarah Lacy talked to Elon Musk of Tesla Motors and SpaceX during PandoMonthly and went into detail on what other entreprenuers should do while raising venture capital, why he isn't going to be doing another Internet startup, his thoughts on CleanTech, the launch of SpaceX, and finally, his plans for the future.
 

TBC has iterated through three generations of TBMs – Godot (off-the-shelf TBM), Godot+ (50% faster than Godot), and Prufrock (pictured above). Each TBM was developed to further increase tunneling speed and reduce tunneling cost.

Prufrock has been designed to launch directly from the surface and will achieve speeds of more than 10x faster than Godot.